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Practicalities of constructing a square box section front axle.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 180\M3\M3.6\  img007
Date  24th May 1919
  
To DA. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} from R. {Sir Henry Royce}
Copy to CJ.
" " BH.
" " EH.

ORIGINAL.

R2/G28/5/19. 2

X.3441. RE EXPERIMENTAL TEST PIECE FOR BOX SECTION AXLE - F.701

We quite appreciate that a square box section front axle would be an immense improvement, but we do not know any practical way of constructing one.

R. {Sir Henry Royce}

[Stamp: RECEIVED 24 MAY 1919]
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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